B98 bromelucej;. 



above. Stamens included: anthers erect. Stigmas spreading. — Stem low, densely leafy 

 below, bracteate above ; leaves lepidote, linear-acuminate, chanaelled. 

 31. T. pulchella, Hook. Stem incurved at the base: naked summit as long as the 

 leaves ; leaves imbricate, linear-acuminate from the gradually dilated base, erect-spreading, 

 channelled, lepidote, at length greenish ; spike few-8-flowered : bractlets somewhat distant, 

 oblong-lanceolate, memtran-aceous, usually with a foliaceous point, rosy; sepals two-thirds 

 as long as the spathulate-linear, white petals : 2 united to f, keeled ; filaments unequal, 

 straigUtish ; capsule equalling the calyx ; seeds devoid of a pappus. — Bot. Mag. t. 5229. — 

 T. pityphylla. Mart. {ex. descr.). — 4"-8" high, often branched below ; leaves 4"-3" long, 

 i'" broad at the base, lowest disappearing before anthesis ; bractlets (except the setaceoos 

 summit) 6"'-8"', calyx 5"'-6"' long.— Hab. Trinidad (Sch.) ; [Cuba ! ; Venezuela !, Guiana!, 

 on tree- branches, Brazil]. 



Sect. 4. DiAPHOKANTHEMA, 5«er. — Spike distichous: peduncles naked, few-\-jlowered.. 

 Petals naked Viithin, spreading above the calyx. Stamens included; ^laments straights 

 anthers erect, introrse. Stigma obsoletely S-loied ; style short. — Stems low, leafy ; 

 leaves lepidote, distichous. 



/ 32. T. recurvata, Z. Stems csespitose ; leaves filiform, recurved : scaly down spread- 

 ing ; peduncles axillary, or terminal, subsolitary, exserted, 2(-5)-flowered; spike included 



' by a sheathing bract, each flower by a bractlet, superior somewhat distant ; calyx 3-leaved, 

 4 as long as the blue corolla ; capsule more than twice as long as the calyx : endocarp 

 brown, submembranaceous. — SI. t. 121./. 1. — About 6" high ; leaves 2"-3", bract 5"'-6'", 

 capsule 1" long. — Hab. Bahamas; Jamaica !, 4/., ^jV,!. ; Antigua !, Wullschl.; [Southern 

 United States !, and Cuba ! to Buenos Ayres !]. 



Sect. 5. Stbepsis, Nutt. — Peduncles naked, lateral, l-fiowered. Petals, stamens, and 

 short style of Diaphorauthema, hut stigmas 3, spreading, capitate at the summit, and 

 ovary-cells few-ovulate. — Stems filiform, hanging, flexnose, branched, leafy ; leaves lepi- 

 dote, alternate ; peduncles solitary. 



/ 33. T. usneoides, L. 'Whitish-lepidote from spreading, scaly down ; hrancTies long, 

 interwoven ; leaves filiform, spreading-reciirved ; peduncles shorter than the leaves : branch 

 and 2 branchlets at their summit filiform, the former as long as the calyx, the latter exceeded 

 by it ; petals " purple," spathulate, half as long again as the 3-leaved calyx ; capsule about 

 thrice as long as the calyx : endocarp purplish-brown, ehartaceous. — SI. t. 122./. 2, 3. — 

 l'-4'long; leaves l"-2", capsule 8'" long : seeds 9-18.— Hab. Jamaica!, ^;., Wullschl.; 

 Antigua !, Wullschl., hanging from trees ; [United States ! to Uruguay ! and Chili !]. 



10. GUZMANIA, R. P. 



Character of Tlllandsia, but anthers cohering. — Habit of Yriesea, but spike pluriserial- 

 imbricate. 



34. G. tricolor, iJ. P. Leaves oblong, acute, slightly dilated at the base, devoid of 

 scaly down, most rosulate, erect, about as long as the ceuiral, bracteate stem ; bractlets 

 ovate, pointed, including the flower, variegated, uppermost red; sepals 3, ventricose-ovatf^ 

 blunt, convolute, two-thirds as long as the white corolla, half as long as the capsule ; ex- 

 serted part of the couuiveut petals ovate, blunt. — R. P. Peruv. t. 261 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5220. 

 — T. comosa, Bert. — 1' high ; leaves 1" broad; bractlets 16"'-12"', calyx 8'" long.^-HAB. 

 Jamaica !, Pd., Al., Wullschl., March, on rocks, S, Andrews ; [Cuba ! to Vortorico ; Ve- 

 nezuela ! to Peru], 



11. CARAGUATA, Plum. 



Character of Kllandsia, but corolla sympetalous, and stamens inserted into the throat of 

 its cylindrical tube. — Stem simple,, leafy below; leaves broad, pointed, devoid of scaly 

 down ; bracts pluriserial-imbricate. 



35. O. lingulata, lAndl. Leaves oblong, mueronate-pointleted, dilated at the base, as 

 long as or longer than the stem ; flowers in a terminal head, yellow, exceeded by ovate- 

 oblong, somewhat rosulate, foliaceous, red bracts ; sepals lanceolalc-acumiuale, half as long 



